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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1968
Page
10
The Decatur area forecast notes partly cloudy skies with a high near 90 today and a low around 67 tonight. Winds west to southwest 8 to 18 mph diminishing tonight. Monday remains partly cloudy and warm with low rain chances over North Alabama.
The forecast calls for clear to partly cloudy skies and warm temperatures today with a high near 88 to 92 degrees and a low around 65. Winds are westerly at 8 to 18 mph. Monday outlook remains partly cloudy and warm.
Denford A Briscoe 32 of Taylor Michigan died Thursday in Detroit. Funeral at New Salem Baptist Church at 2 p m Monday with Rev Henry Mooney officiating. Burial at adjoining cemetery Peck Funeral Home directing. Survivors include widow Lillian Briscoe and four daughters three sons.
Karl F. Emens age 69 of 922 Car radale SW died at his home Saturday evening. Funeral arrangements will be announced later by Gunthorp Funeral Home. Emens worked for years as a foreman at Cooper Wells Mills.
Police report a Fri night fight at Gulf Service Station on 6th Mouitert Street injured Decatur resident Nathaniel Lee Morris. Morris 24 was hospitalized after a confrontation with Gayton Wayne Terry of Decatur. Further details from Decatur General Hospital.
Steve Clark a 14 year old from Indian Hills Road was taken to Decatur General Hospital after diving into the shallow end at Burning Tree Country Club and striking his head. Doctors ordered x rays and the boy was later found to have a slipped bone in his neck. He was transported by Southend Ambulance in good condition.
A hospital dismissal list shows numerous residents from Decatur and surrounding areas, including Shirley Ann Burns Molton, Lawrence T. Jones Trinity-1, and Charles D. Rutledge Pinehurst St. Also named are Nath anial Morris Somerville Rd Decatur Miss Dona Art Allen, Gail Ann Tucker, Jennifer Kay Roberson, Rev Willie Brown, Walter Sherman Crisler, Martha Lynn Krome, Patricia Ann Knighten, Steven Allen Clark, and others.
Emocagatoms lists the Basin Library Bookmobile plan with daily stops across Piney Chapel Rain ey's Store Pleasant Grove Cedar Grove Athens Cherry Grove Cairo Danville Liberty Hulaco Center Grove Oden Ridge and surrounding stores, detailing times from morning to afternoon Monday through Thursday.
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